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Re: Public Wireless Phones on Trains?

Scott Dorsey (kludge@panix.com)
11 Jan 2005 18:59:47 -0500

<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

> In the early 1990s, public wireless payphones were installed on some
> commuter and intercity railroad trains as a convenience to passengers.
> Initially they were pretty popular. In NYC, the Metro North RR put
> them on as many trains as possible. Amtrak provided them as well.
> Calls were paid for credit card at about $1/minute.

> Now with personal cell phones so popular, would anyone know if the
> public wireless phones remain available on trains?

Don't know about the rest of the country, but Metroliners on the
Eastern Corridor all have Railfones.

--scott

"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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